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Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Regina Barzilay | Mark Johnson

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Fast and Robust Joint Models for Biomedical Event Extraction
Sebastian Riedel | Andrew McCallum

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Predicting Thread Discourse Structure over Technical Web Forums
Li Wang | Marco Lui | Su Nam Kim | Joakim Nivre | Timothy Baldwin

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Exact Decoding of Phrase-Based Translation Models through Lagrangian Relaxation
Yin-Wen Chang | Michael Collins

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Optimal Search for Minimum Error Rate Training
Michel Galley | Chris Quirk

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Unsupervised Structure Prediction with Non-Parallel Multilingual Guidance
Shay B. Cohen | Dipanjan Das | Noah A. Smith

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Multi-Source Transfer of Delexicalized Dependency Parsers
Ryan McDonald | Slav Petrov | Keith Hall

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SMT Helps Bitext Dependency Parsing
Wenliang Chen | Jun’ichi Kazama | Min Zhang | Yoshimasa Tsuruoka | Yujie Zhang | Yiou Wang | Kentaro Torisawa | Haizhou Li

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Accurate Parsing with Compact Tree-Substitution Grammars: Double-DOP
Federico Sangati | Willem Zuidema

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A Generate and Rank Approach to Sentence Paraphrasing
Prodromos Malakasiotis | Ion Androutsopoulos

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Correcting Semantic Collocation Errors with L1-induced Paraphrases
Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng

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Class Label Enhancement via Related Instances
Zornitsa Kozareva | Konstantin Voevodski | Shanghua Teng

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A Joint Model for Extended Semantic Role Labeling
Vivek Srikumar | Dan Roth

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Domain-Assisted Product Aspect Hierarchy Generation: Towards Hierarchical Organization of Unstructured Consumer Reviews
Jianxing Yu | Zheng-Jun Zha | Meng Wang | Kai Wang | Tat-Seng Chua

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Semi-Supervised Recursive Autoencoders for Predicting Sentiment Distributions
Richard Socher | Jeffrey Pennington | Eric H. Huang | Andrew Y. Ng | Christopher D. Manning

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Unsupervised Discovery of Discourse Relations for Eliminating Intra-sentence Polarity Ambiguities
Lanjun Zhou | Binyang Li | Wei Gao | Zhongyu Wei | Kam-Fai Wong

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Compositional Matrix-Space Models for Sentiment Analysis
Ainur Yessenalina | Claire Cardie

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Training a Parser for Machine Translation Reordering
Jason Katz-Brown | Slav Petrov | Ryan McDonald | Franz Och | David Talbot | Hiroshi Ichikawa | Masakazu Seno | Hideto Kazawa

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Inducing Sentence Structure from Parallel Corpora for Reordering
John DeNero | Jakob Uszkoreit

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Augmenting String-to-Tree Translation Models with Fuzzy Use of Source-side Syntax
Jiajun Zhang | Feifei Zhai | Chengqing Zong

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A novel dependency-to-string model for statistical machine translation
Jun Xie | Haitao Mi | Qun Liu

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Bayesian Checking for Topic Models
David Mimno | David Blei

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Dual Decomposition with Many Overlapping Components
André Martins | Noah Smith | Mário Figueiredo | Pedro Aguiar

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Approximate Scalable Bounded Space Sketch for Large Data NLP
Amit Goyal | Hal Daumé III

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Optimizing Semantic Coherence in Topic Models
David Mimno | Hanna Wallach | Edmund Talley | Miriam Leenders | Andrew McCallum

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A Weakly-supervised Approach to Argumentative Zoning of Scientific Documents
Yufan Guo | Anna Korhonen | Thierry Poibeau

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Linear Text Segmentation Using Affinity Propagation
Anna Kazantseva | Stan Szpakowicz

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Minimally Supervised Event Causality Identification
Quang Do | Yee Seng Chan | Dan Roth

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A Model of Discourse Predictions in Human Sentence Processing
Amit Dubey | Frank Keller | Patrick Sturt

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Simple Effective Decipherment via Combinatorial Optimization
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick | Dan Klein

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Universal Morphological Analysis using Structured Nearest Neighbor Prediction
Young-Bum Kim | João Graça | Benjamin Snyder

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Training a Log-Linear Parser with Loss Functions via Softmax-Margin
Michael Auli | Adam Lopez

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Large-Scale Cognate Recovery
David Hall | Dan Klein

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Domain Adaptation via Pseudo In-Domain Data Selection
Amittai Axelrod | Xiaodong He | Jianfeng Gao

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Language Models for Machine Translation: Original vs. Translated Texts
Gennadi Lembersky | Noam Ordan | Shuly Wintner

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Better Evaluation Metrics Lead to Better Machine Translation
Chang Liu | Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng

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Evaluating Dependency Parsing: Robust and Heuristics-Free Cross-Annotation Evaluation
Reut Tsarfaty | Joakim Nivre | Evelina Andersson

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Parser Evaluation over Local and Non-Local Deep Dependencies in a Large Corpus
Emily M. Bender | Dan Flickinger | Stephan Oepen | Yi Zhang

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Learning to Simplify Sentences with Quasi-Synchronous Grammar and Integer Programming
Kristian Woodsend | Mirella Lapata

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Bootstrapping Semantic Parsers from Conversations
Yoav Artzi | Luke Zettlemoyer

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Timeline Generation through Evolutionary Trans-Temporal Summarization
Rui Yan | Liang Kong | Congrui Huang | Xiaojun Wan | Xiaoming Li | Yan Zhang

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Corpus-Guided Sentence Generation of Natural Images
Yezhou Yang | Ching Teo | Hal Daumé III | Yiannis Aloimonos

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Corroborating Text Evaluation Results with Heterogeneous Measures
Enrique Amigó | Julio Gonzalo | Jesús Giménez | Felisa Verdejo

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Ranking Human and Machine Summarization Systems
Peter Rankel | John Conroy | Eric Slud | Dianne O’Leary

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Quasi-Synchronous Phrase Dependency Grammars for Machine Translation
Kevin Gimpel | Noah A. Smith

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A Word Reordering Model for Improved Machine Translation
Karthik Visweswariah | Rajakrishnan Rajkumar | Ankur Gandhe | Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan | Jiri Navratil

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Feature-Rich Language-Independent Syntax-Based Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation
Jason Riesa | Ann Irvine | Daniel Marcu

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Efficient retrieval of tree translation examples for Syntax-Based Machine Translation
Fabien Cromieres | Sadao Kurohashi

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A generative model for unsupervised discovery of relations and argument classes from clinical texts
Bryan Rink | Sanda Harabagiu

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Random Walk Inference and Learning in A Large Scale Knowledge Base
Ni Lao | Tom Mitchell | William W. Cohen

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Exploring Supervised LDA Models for Assigning Attributes to Adjective-Noun Phrases
Matthias Hartung | Anette Frank

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Semantic Topic Models: Combining Word Distributional Statistics and Dictionary Definitions
Weiwei Guo | Mona Diab

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Cooooooooooooooollllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Using Word Lengthening to Detect Sentiment in Microblogs
Samuel Brody | Nicholas Diakopoulos

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Personalized Recommendation of User Comments via Factor Models
Deepak Agarwal | Bee-Chung Chen | Bo Pang

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Data-Driven Response Generation in Social Media
Alan Ritter | Colin Cherry | William B. Dolan

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Predicting a Scientific Community’s Response to an Article
Dani Yogatama | Michael Heilman | Brendan O’Connor | Chris Dyer | Bryan R. Routledge | Noah A. Smith

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Non-parametric Bayesian Segmentation of Japanese Noun Phrases
Yugo Murawaki | Sadao Kurohashi

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Discovering Morphological Paradigms from Plain Text Using a Dirichlet Process Mixture Model
Markus Dreyer | Jason Eisner

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Multilayer Sequence Labeling
Ai Azuma | Yuji Matsumoto

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A Bayesian Mixture Model for PoS Induction Using Multiple Features
Christos Christodoulopoulos | Sharon Goldwater | Mark Steedman

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Large-Scale Noun Compound Interpretation Using Bootstrapping and the Web as a Corpus
Su Nam Kim | Preslav Nakov

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Linguistic Redundancy in Twitter
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto | Marco Pennacchiotti | Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis

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Divide and Conquer: Crowdsourcing the Creation of Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment Corpora
Matteo Negri | Luisa Bentivogli | Yashar Mehdad | Danilo Giampiccolo | Alessandro Marchetti

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Literal and Metaphorical Sense Identification through Concrete and Abstract Context
Peter Turney | Yair Neuman | Dan Assaf | Yohai Cohen

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Syntactic Decision Tree LMs: Random Selection or Intelligent Design?
Denis Filimonov | Mary Harper

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The Imagination of Crowds: Conversational AAC Language Modeling using Crowdsourcing and Large Data Sources
Keith Vertanen | Per Ola Kristensson

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Using Syntactic and Semantic Structural Kernels for Classifying Definition Questions in Jeopardy!
Alessandro Moschitti | Jennifer Chu-Carroll | Siddharth Patwardhan | James Fan | Giuseppe Riccardi

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Multiword Expression Identification with Tree Substitution Grammars: A Parsing tour de force with French
Spence Green | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe | John Bauer | Christopher D. Manning

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Modelling Discourse Relations for Arabic
Amal Al-Saif | Katja Markert

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Classifying Sentences as Speech Acts in Message Board Posts
Ashequl Qadir | Ellen Riloff

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Learning Local Content Shift Detectors from Document-level Information
Richárd Farkas

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Collaborative Ranking: A Case Study on Entity Linking
Zheng Chen | Heng Ji

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Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text
Johannes Hoffart | Mohamed Amir Yosef | Ilaria Bordino | Hagen Fürstenau | Manfred Pinkal | Marc Spaniol | Bilyana Taneva | Stefan Thater | Gerhard Weikum

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A Cascaded Classification Approach to Semantic Head Recognition
Lukas Michelbacher | Alok Kothari | Martin Forst | Christina Lioma | Hinrich Schütze

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Linking Entities to a Knowledge Base with Query Expansion
Swapna Gottipati | Jing Jiang

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Unsupervised Information Extraction with Distributional Prior Knowledge
Cane Wing-ki Leung | Jing Jiang | Kian Ming A. Chai | Hai Leong Chieu | Loo-Nin Teow

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Relation Acquisition using Word Classes and Partial Patterns
Stijn De Saeger | Kentaro Torisawa | Masaaki Tsuchida | Jun’ichi Kazama | Chikara Hashimoto | Ichiro Yamada | Jong Hoon Oh | Istvan Varga | Yulan Yan

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Identification of Multi-word Expressions by Combining Multiple Linguistic Information Sources
Yulia Tsvetkov | Shuly Wintner

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Analyzing Methods for Improving Precision of Pivot Based Bilingual Dictionaries
Xabier Saralegi | Iker Manterola | Iñaki San Vicente

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Soft Dependency Constraints for Reordering in Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation
Yang Gao | Philipp Koehn | Alexandra Birch

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Statistical Machine Translation with Local Language Models
Christof Monz

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Fast Generation of Translation Forest for Large-Scale SMT Discriminative Training
Xinyan Xiao | Yang Liu | Qun Liu | Shouxun Lin

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A Correction Model for Word Alignments
J. Scott McCarley | Abraham Ittycheriah | Salim Roukos | Bing Xiang | Jian-ming Xu

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Heuristic Search for Non-Bottom-Up Tree Structure Prediction
Andrea Gesmundo | James Henderson

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Cache-based Document-level Statistical Machine Translation
Zhengxian Gong | Min Zhang | Guodong Zhou

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Minimum Imputed-Risk: Unsupervised Discriminative Training for Machine Translation
Zhifei Li | Ziyuan Wang | Jason Eisner | Sanjeev Khudanpur | Brian Roark

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Improving Bilingual Projections via Sparse Covariance Matrices
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi | Raghavendra Udupa | Hal Daumé III | Abhijit Bhole

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Entire Relaxation Path for Maximum Entropy Problems
Moshe Dubiner | Yoram Singer

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A Non-negative Matrix Factorization Based Approach for Active Dual Supervision from Document and Word Labels
Chao Shen | Tao Li

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Splitting Noun Compounds via Monolingual and Bilingual Paraphrasing: A Study on Japanese Katakana Words
Nobuhiro Kaji | Masaru Kitsuregawa

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Enhancing Chinese Word Segmentation Using Unlabeled Data
Weiwei Sun | Jia Xu

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Unsupervised Learning of Selectional Restrictions and Detection of Argument Coercions
Kirk Roberts | Sanda Harabagiu

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Harnessing different knowledge sources to measure semantic relatedness under a uniform model
Ziqi Zhang | Anna Lisa Gentile | Fabio Ciravegna

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Refining the Notions of Depth and Density in WordNet-based Semantic Similarity Measures
Tong Wang | Graeme Hirst

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Latent Vector Weighting for Word Meaning in Context
Tim Van de Cruys | Thierry Poibeau | Anna Korhonen

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Hierarchical Verb Clustering Using Graph Factorization
Lin Sun | Anna Korhonen

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Structured Lexical Similarity via Convolution Kernels on Dependency Trees
Danilo Croce | Alessandro Moschitti | Roberto Basili

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Probabilistic models of similarity in syntactic context
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha | Anna Korhonen

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Lexical Co-occurrence, Statistical Significance, and Word Association
Dipak L. Chaudhari | Om P. Damani | Srivatsan Laxman

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Learning the Information Status of Noun Phrases in Spoken Dialogues
Altaf Rahman | Vincent Ng

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Harnessing WordNet Senses for Supervised Sentiment Classification
Balamurali AR | Aditya Joshi | Pushpak Bhattacharyya

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Learning General Connotation of Words using Graph-based Algorithms
Song Feng | Ritwik Bose | Yejin Choi

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Hypotheses Selection Criteria in a Reranking Framework for Spoken Language Understanding
Marco Dinarelli | Sophie Rosset

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A Fast Re-scoring Strategy to Capture Long-Distance Dependencies
Anoop Deoras | Tomáš Mikolov | Kenneth Church

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Efficient Subsampling for Training Complex Language Models
Puyang Xu | Asela Gunawardana | Sanjeev Khudanpur

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Generating Aspect-oriented Multi-Document Summarization with Event-aspect model
Peng Li | Yinglin Wang | Wei Gao | Jing Jiang

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Syntax-Based Grammaticality Improvement using CCG and Guided Search
Yue Zhang | Stephen Clark

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Generating Subsequent Reference in Shared Visual Scenes: Computation vs Re-Use
Jette Viethen | Robert Dale | Markus Guhe

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Learning Sentential Paraphrases from Bilingual Parallel Corpora for Text-to-Text Generation
Juri Ganitkevitch | Chris Callison-Burch | Courtney Napoles | Benjamin Van Durme

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Joint Models for Chinese POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing
Zhenghua Li | Min Zhang | Wanxiang Che | Ting Liu | Wenliang Chen | Haizhou Li

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Relaxed Cross-lingual Projection of Constituent Syntax
Wenbin Jiang | Qun Liu | Yajuan Lv

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Computing Logical Form on Regulatory Texts
Nikhil Dinesh | Aravind Joshi | Insup Lee

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Computation of Infix Probabilities for Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars
Mark-Jan Nederhof | Giorgio Satta

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Parse Correction with Specialized Models for Difficult Attachment Types
Enrique Henestroza Anguiano | Marie Candito

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Exact Inference for Generative Probabilistic Non-Projective Dependency Parsing
Shay B. Cohen | Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez | Giorgio Satta

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Semi-supervised CCG Lexicon Extension
Emily Thomforde | Mark Steedman

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A Fast, Accurate, Non-Projective, Semantically-Enriched Parser
Stephen Tratz | Eduard Hovy

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Lateen EM: Unsupervised Training with Multiple Objectives, Applied to Dependency Grammar Induction
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Hiyan Alshawi | Daniel Jurafsky

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Unsupervised Dependency Parsing without Gold Part-of-Speech Tags
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Hiyan Alshawi | Angel X. Chang | Daniel Jurafsky

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Exploiting Syntactic and Distributional Information for Spelling Correction with Web-Scale N-gram Models
Wei Xu | Joel Tetreault | Martin Chodorow | Ralph Grishman | Le Zhao

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Discriminating Gender on Twitter
John D. Burger | John Henderson | George Kim | Guido Zarrella

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Identifying and Following Expert Investors in Stock Microblogs
Roy Bar-Haim | Elad Dinur | Ronen Feldman | Moshe Fresko | Guy Goldstein

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Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction with Graph Partitioning
Joel Lang | Mirella Lapata

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Structural Opinion Mining for Graph-based Sentiment Representation
Yuanbin Wu | Qi Zhang | Xuanjing Huang | Lide Wu

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Summarize What You Are Interested In: An Optimization Framework for Interactive Personalized Summarization
Rui Yan | Jian-Yun Nie | Xiaoming Li

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Tuning as Ranking
Mark Hopkins | Jonathan May

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Watermarking the Outputs of Structured Prediction with an application in Statistical Machine Translation.
Ashish Venugopal | Jakob Uszkoreit | David Talbot | Franz Och | Juri Ganitkevitch

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Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Representations
Gonzalo Iglesias | Cyril Allauzen | William Byrne | Adrià de Gispert | Michael Riley

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Improved Transliteration Mining Using Graph Reinforcement
Ali El Kahki | Kareem Darwish | Ahmed Saad El Din | Mohamed Abd El-Wahab | Ahmed Hefny | Waleed Ammar

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Experimental Support for a Categorical Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning
Edward Grefenstette | Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

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Cross-Cutting Models of Lexical Semantics
Joseph Reisinger | Raymond Mooney

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Reducing Grounded Learning Tasks To Grammatical Inference
Benjamin Börschinger | Bevan K. Jones | Mark Johnson

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Relation Extraction with Relation Topics
Chang Wang | James Fan | Aditya Kalyanpur | David Gondek

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Extreme Extraction – Machine Reading in a Week
Marjorie Freedman | Lance Ramshaw | Elizabeth Boschee | Ryan Gabbard | Gary Kratkiewicz | Nicolas Ward | Ralph Weischedel

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Discovering Relations between Noun Categories
Thahir Mohamed | Estevam Hruschka | Tom Mitchell

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Structured Relation Discovery using Generative Models
Limin Yao | Aria Haghighi | Sebastian Riedel | Andrew McCallum

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Closing the Loop: Fast, Interactive Semi-Supervised Annotation With Queries on Features and Instances
Burr Settles

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Third-order Variational Reranking on Packed-Shared Dependency Forests
Katsuhiko Hayashi | Taro Watanabe | Masayuki Asahara | Yuji Matsumoto

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Training dependency parsers by jointly optimizing multiple objectives
Keith Hall | Ryan McDonald | Jason Katz-Brown | Michael Ringgaard

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Structured Sparsity in Structured Prediction
André Martins | Noah Smith | Mário Figueiredo | Pedro Aguiar

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Lexical Generalization in CCG Grammar Induction for Semantic Parsing
Tom Kwiatkowski | Luke Zettlemoyer | Sharon Goldwater | Mark Steedman

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Named Entity Recognition in Tweets: An Experimental Study
Alan Ritter | Sam Clark | Mausam | Oren Etzioni

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Identifying Relations for Open Information Extraction
Anthony Fader | Stephen Soderland | Oren Etzioni

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Active Learning with Amazon Mechanical Turk
Florian Laws | Christian Scheible | Hinrich Schütze

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Bootstrapped Named Entity Recognition for Product Attribute Extraction
Duangmanee Putthividhya | Junling Hu

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Twitter Catches The Flu: Detecting Influenza Epidemics using Twitter
Eiji Aramaki | Sachiko Maskawa | Mizuki Morita

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A Simple Word Trigger Method for Social Tag Suggestion
Zhiyuan Liu | Xinxiong Chen | Maosong Sun

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Rumor has it: Identifying Misinformation in Microblogs
Vahed Qazvinian | Emily Rosengren | Dragomir R. Radev | Qiaozhu Mei

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Exploiting Parse Structures for Native Language Identification
Sze-Meng Jojo Wong | Mark Dras

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A Probabilistic Forest-to-String Model for Language Generation from Typed Lambda Calculus Expressions
Wei Lu | Hwee Tou Ng